. Canadian forestry journal. Forests and forestry -- Canada Periodicals. 86 Canadian Forestry Journal, February), 1919 Forestry Association, although the greater part of the financial maintenance of three of them was borne by the Quebec Forest Service and the Dominion Forestry Branch. A total of 150 public meetings wer; held between Spring and Fall on the subject of forest protection. This is about three times the average number in previous years. Use of Lantern Slides. Audiences at motion picture theatres are susceptible to appeals on forest protection matters and this avenue has been utilize


. Canadian forestry journal. Forests and forestry -- Canada Periodicals. 86 Canadian Forestry Journal, February), 1919 Forestry Association, although the greater part of the financial maintenance of three of them was borne by the Quebec Forest Service and the Dominion Forestry Branch. A total of 150 public meetings wer; held between Spring and Fall on the subject of forest protection. This is about three times the average number in previous years. Use of Lantern Slides. Audiences at motion picture theatres are susceptible to appeals on forest protection matters and this avenue has been utilized by obtaining the co-operation of theatres in most of the forested districts across the Dominion. A weekly service of lantern-slide cartoons and printed appeals were set in operation last Spring and continued until the Fall months. Local reports declare that the slides were well em- ences. Most theatre managers have agreed to ployed and were happily received by ths audi- carry out the plan in 1919 as well. Motion pictures are now a regular part of the Association's lecture equipment and some of our films have been made use of in circuits of motion picture theatres. Tobacco Company's Help. Of several pieces of educational work of a like nature, we might mention particularly the arrangement made with the Imperial Tobacco Company, Montreal, through the courtesy of Sir Mortimer Davis, to place in the cigarette pack- ages sold through Canada a series of printed slips, asking the smoker to extinguish match and cigarette before throwing away. Our school lecture sets, which now number five, were in active employment during the first part of the year. The closing of schools and the need of crowding the curriculum to make up for lost time made it necessary for us to with- draw the service partly during the fall months. These sets are again in operation and with their fifty colored lantern slides and lecturer's manu- script have proved a popular plan of reaching schools and churches. In


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